ITV1 is to bring variety back to Saturday night prime time with a series featuring top music and entertainment stars as part of the first autumn season for its new director of television, Peter Fincham.

For One Night Only, which will be produced by the team behind The Royal Variety Performance and Saturday Live, will be one of the highlights of ITV1's new schedule, which was unveiled this morning.

ITV said the show would be a "modern variety show that combines exciting hosts with top-quality comedy, dazzling speciality acts and massive music stars".

Each show will be fronted by two different hosts and will feature an "exclusive glittering showpiece finale" involving all of that week's guests.

The show follows the success of Britain's Got Talent, which reintroduced variety acts to ITV's weekend prime time.

It also follows in a long line of iconic ITV variety shows such as Sunday Night at the London Palladium in the 1950s and 1960s and Live from the Palladium in the late 1980s as well as New Faces in the 1970s and 1980s.

As part of ITV1's new entertainment lineup, one-off comedy show We Are Not Amused will bring together talent from the past 60 years to mark Prince Charles's 60th birthday and to raise funds for his Prince's Trust charity.

More female recording artists will take part in Divas 2 while I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!, Harry Hill's TV Burp and Al Murray's Pub Landlord all return.

Musical drama Britannia High, which follows the fortunes of six students at a performing arts school, also launches while The Sound of Music star Connie Fisher stars in her first TV drama, Caught in a Trap.

The Children: follows the investigation into the murder of an eight-year-old girl. Photograph: ITV

Three-part thriller The Children, written by Lucy Gannon, follows the investigation into the murder of an eight-year-old girl on her own patio while Sean Bean returns as Sharpe in new two-hour feature, Sharpe's Peril.

In factual, Trinny and Susannah front a third series of Undress the Nation, while In The Line Of Fire features the CO19 special unit set up to deal with gun crime in London.

Griff Rhys Jones looks at three of the world's greatest cities in three-part series Griff Rhys Jones: Greatest Cities of the World, while Melvyn Bragg will chair a discussion series on Western art's religious pictures in Faith In The Frame.

ITV has highlighted sport as a big draw after scooping the rights to the FA Cup and England internationals, while Soccer Aid returns with an England versus the rest of the world match, fronted by Ant and Dec at Wembley stadium.

Fincham said: "The autumn season on ITV1 promises an exciting lineup of talent, the most anticipated football fixtures and thought-provoking factual programming, in addition to ITV1's proven mix of big event entertainment and new, original, quality drama."

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